Comments on: Basic SharedObject example in Flex, Red5 & Flash Media Server

By: denden123

denden123 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:24:38 +0000

dear rob,

i finally can make your code works,so i add to make a login action at the code, i can make the user connected or get the userlist (i’m combine your serverside code with clientmanager code)

but i have a problem i can login as a new Chat-User and the Userlist is getting updated, however, it only updates the userlist for the one user who has just logged in.So the userlist for all the other users, who had already logged in before, is not getting updated.

can you tell me how to syncrhronize the userlist to other users who had already logged in?

i really appriciated if you want to help me,
thanks you very much.

By: sharedObject basic on red5 | arifwicaksono

sharedObject basic on red5 | arifwicaksono — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:06:31 +0000

[...] simple and basic sharedObject example given by robsilverton here, i’ve stuck with red5 sharedObject for several days, try to understand how it works and [...]

By: robsilverton

robsilverton — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:19:38 +0000

hi paktua/denden,

I’m afraid I haven’t had my head in the Red5 world for a while now due to a rather large and ongoing project, so I’m not sure about the shared object problem you mention.

If you’re not having any luck with red5 v0.7 I’d suggest upgrading to red5 v8 rc1 or the latest version and trying again. Difficult to say what the problem might be based on the above to be honest, as in my experience it can be any number of things.. :S

best
rob

By: denden123

denden123 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:12:36 +0000

sir, is this code only work at red58Rc1 ? because i’m using red507, the connection is connected, but the chat is not working.

btw i’ve read an issue that shared object on red507 is not working, is it true?

By: paktua

paktua — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:42:01 +0000

dear robsilverton, i’m sory to ask this, but i can’t make your example run, i tested it, the connection is working, the application print that conection success, but i try to write something and hit the send button and nothing happen.

i’m very much newbie on red5 and java programing, please tell me if i miss something.

thank you

By: Good Sample Code for Shared Objects with Red5 and Flex « Xuggle

Good Sample Code for Shared Objects with Red5 and Flex « Xuggle — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:33:57 +0000

[...] Good Sample Code for Shared Objects with Red5 and Flex Rob Silverton has put together some sample Flex code for using Shared Objects with a media server, and then shown sample code for the server-side application in both Red5 Java and Adobe Flash Media Server Server-Side ActionScript. It’s pretty simple, but powerful. Check it out. [...]

By: schrodinger09

schrodinger09 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:48:01 +0000

Hi folks,

Red5 just released version 0.8 RC2; what’s the big difference between it and other releases: stability:
http://www.red5.org/

We added working unit tests, and end-to-end flash system tests that are run on every checkin. We will continue that for future releases.

The other thing that can help Red5 get to the level the community needs is more tutorials like this one. Great work Rob!

If you had a moment to update the link about Red5 0.8 RC1 to point to RC2 that’d be great — RC2 fixes a lot of the RC1 stability issues.

Thanks,

- Art Clarke

By: robsilverton

robsilverton — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:40:51 +0000

Thanks very much for your input anon, Wowza has been recommended to me recently by a developer friend too so I think this will be the next media server on my list (which seems to get longer every day…)

Before I was talked into having a play with Red5 my plan was to wait for the version 1 release. I learned a lot from the experience, but I think for the meantime there’s probably more value in broadening my experience than digging deeper into Red5.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:12:09 +0000

Red5 is a very interesting project, but I’ve thrown away nearly three years of my life because of it developing a product which has never been stable enough to sell – as Red5 is constantly shifting and breaking with every build.

One day Red5 might well be the most spectacular streaming server out there… it is incredibly feature packed, but for the forseeable IMHO I would not build anything on it where you have paying customers expecting 99.9999% uptime, or even 75% uptime.

My honest advice to you is to either use FMS or check out Wowza. Wowza is also Java based, has only 10% of the stability of Red5, but it dramatically more reliable.

By: robsilverton

robsilverton — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:45:55 +0000

Hi Tom,

I’ve no idea about Linux either but I managed to pick up Java pretty quickly when playing with Red5 based on my AS3 knowledge. You can run Red5 on Windows anyway so I wouldn’t worry about Linux for now.

As for which one to go for, I’m currently undecided. Red5 is a better dev experience once you get it working, and I now prefer coding serverside in Java rather than in JavaScript, but I have reservations about using it on a big commercial project where things could go wrong and the support would be limited.

These have also been recommended to me recently:

http://www.smartfoxserver.com/overview.php
http://www.electro-server.com/

…so I might have to have a play when I get the chance.

If you’re just getting started with Red5 I’d have a scan of my other posts on the subject, I think I hit just about every problem imaginable…

cheers
rob